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I've just realised you're missing a digital delay!! I like my marshall echohead, but there's lots of choice.

[quote name='kingforaday' post='499743' date='May 28 2009, 11:57 AM']the fulltone and the VT give me all the dirt i need really...[/quote] That's impossible, everyone needs at least 4 dirt pedals.

Yeh you need more dirt.

With the kind of money you have to spend, I wouldn't be looking at multi-effects as a learning tool. You could get a TC G-major and a MIDI controller, something like that.

I love the top, but the contouring on the back is just weird! I suppose it could just be the pictures giving me a strange perspective.

I reckon you should go into a big shop and play about with one of the expensive multi-effects units for a good while, it could save you a lot of cash and space! If you're into tool though you should want a chorus!

Yeh, I suppose it would be the only way to create long sustain at low volume!

Very nice!!

A compressor can help you get more sustain, but it's kind of the wrong way to go about it. If you turn your amp up you should get more sustain. A compressor creates the illusion of sustain by making the quieter "tail" portion of the note, louder relative to the loudest "attack" portion of the note. (unless i'm talking BS in which case I apologise!)

Have you tried google? Because it says there are 6 music shops in the centre of cape town, at least one will sell basses.

How are you powering it? If the LED comes on it would suggest the power is working and the pedal is f*cked.

Does the LED come on?

I think the perception of dynamics is quite different to what "dynamics" actually are. For example, when I was gigging with my massive pedalboard, my bass sound was extremely compressed. Obviously, if anything is extremely compressed, then it's dynamic range is greatly reduced. Due to the fact that my thresholds weren't too low, I could still drop quieter for softer sections. Seperately, using different combinations of effects pedals to increase the overall volume before a limiter sounded miles louder, but obviously this was perceived volume, rather than actual dynamics. So, I could create the same effect as lowering and raising the volume of the bass (with my fingers), without actually changing the volume of what came out of the amp bass much. I'm not sure if that's making sense, I just mean you can be a "dynamic" band and have an extremely compressed bass sound.

I just can't get the same sort of massive powerful sound without using parallel compression and master limiting. It gets the sound I want in the studio, and does exactly the same on stage!

I don't minid my spacing small or large. I play a lot of guitar, baritone guitar, 6 string bass with wide spacing..... It makes no difference to me. The two things I love most about this bass are the black pin stripes, and the contouring on the top - the way it's flat or "sharp" in places but all so beautifully smooth.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='495252' date='May 22 2009, 03:23 PM']this thread is retard free.[/quote] errrrrrm, i'm not sure if I agree with you there. It's the first thread i've read on BC with more than one tale of "sh*tting one's self" (there has got to be a word for that, i've been scouring online thesauruses for the last 15 minutes and can't find one).

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='495113' date='May 22 2009, 01:01 PM']I did it in a night club. And the pub. And walking home from a nightclub. Never sober mind.[/quote] Was that all the same curry?

I sh*t myself at school and it traumatised me for life!

[quote name='Mikey R' post='494669' date='May 21 2009, 09:26 PM']Quick question - Does anyone know where I can host some mp3s?[/quote] You can attach them to a post on here!

[quote name='AM1' post='494913' date='May 22 2009, 09:54 AM']Yeah exactly not from your hands, but I bet sweat drips onto the bass anyway, then when you play, your strings get slippery, you slippery weirdo![/quote] Well, not really, the sweat drips off my face and I would guess a few of those drops get onto the strings, but not a significant amount. I am always soaked through after gigs but my strings have never gone black or even got significantly dirty. Similarly when I play drums I sweat even more, so much that it feels like i've had an extremely sloppy turd in my pants, but I can still hold onto the sticks!!

I love that! Nice one.

Strange that the LPB doesn't have seperate low an high controls!

[quote name='AM1' post='494687' date='May 21 2009, 09:45 PM']No, no, no...you got that a touch mixed up. Let me assist you by correcting it: If you're abnormally, disgustingly into jazz or play like a boring tw@t, with no energy, change your strings every few months. If you're normal and play top quality, energetic, sweat-inducing music, fill a tube with beer, to cool you down and bulk buy lots of strings. I'll get my coat! [/quote] I play hard, and I sweat a lot, but not from my hands you weirdo!